Mw 6.0 Jujuy, Argentina

On 22 February 2022 a strong earthquake occurred in Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 231 km. The seismic event occurred at 06:12:49 UTC and had an estimated moment magnitude (Mw) 6.0.

The earthquake occurred after a Venus-Mercury-Saturn conjunction (typically fast moving planets against a slow moving outer planet) on the 20th. A day earlier a strong earthquake also occurred in in the Balleny Islands region.

Mercury-Sun-Uranus        2022-02-17,  0:01:45   43°38'02"
Venus-Sun-Neptune         2022-02-17, 10:40:08  352°25'42"
Venus-Mercury-Saturn      2022-02-20, 21:52:41  318°46'26"

Moon-Earth-Jupiter        2022-02-17, 16:57:27  340°50'51"
Moon-Earth-Neptune        2022-02-18, 12:55:46  351°43'13"
					

SSGI depiction of planetary (PG) and lunar (LG) geometry